4.7.24.md

CiviCRM 4.7.24

Released September 6, 2017

• Synopsis
• Features
• Bugs resolved
• Miscellany
• Credits
• Feedback

Synopsis

Does this version...?
Fix security vulnerabilities?	No
Change the database schema?	Yes
Alter the API?	Yes
Require attention to configuration options?	No
Fix problems installing or upgrading to a previous version?	No
Introduce features?	Yes
Fix bugs?	Yes

Features

Core CiviCRM

• CRM-20941 Determine & notify date to end support for PHP5.3 and PHP5.4 (10948 and 10872)

  Updated upgrade message text regarding support for PHP5.3 and PHP5.4

• CRM-20960 Upgrade Dompdf to 0.8 (10751)

  Civicrm now uses dompdf to 0.8 which is compatible with PHP 7.1.

• CRM-20563 Improve 'unable to provide this...' error message (10340)

  The "Sorry but we are not able to provide this at the moment." error message is improved to be more descriptive. It now says "Sorry, due to an error, CiviCRM is unable to fulfill your request at the moment. You may want to contact your administrator or service provider with more details about when this occurred."

• CRM-20929 Allow styling of page title in Angular (10711)

  This change conveys CSS classes from Angular crm-page-title elements to the main page title for styling purposes.

• CRM-20945 Differentiate using CSS active selected page in AtoZ Pager (10723)

  Now when using the A to Z pager (searching alphabetically) the active selected page is differentiated from the other pages listed.

• CRM-20863 Improve ordering of report lists (10653)

  If reports have the same weight they will now be ordered alphabetically by title ascending.

• CRM-20994 CurrentEmployer Report contains a hardcoded value for RelationshipType (10795)

  Changes Current Employer Report to get Employee Relationship type from the API instead of a hardcoded value of the ID 4.

• CRM-21012 Add link to release notes in CiviCRM footer (10807)

  The version number in the footer now links to the release notes for that version.

CiviContribute

• CRM-20610 Replace payment details block with editable payment list on 'Edit Contribution' form (10814, 10806, 10777, and 10774) (Initial Work)

  Updates the user experience for partial payments for events, memberships and contributions on entry, editing and display.

• CRM-20890 Move recieve_date between Contribution status and Revenue Recognition date in Contribution backoffice form (10682)

  This change moves the placement of fields on the backend contribution form to enhance user experience.

• CRM-20984 Move placement of payment processor field on live mode (10787)

  This change moves the payment processor selection field on the backend credit card contribution form. It is now closer to the billing block.

• CRM-20860 Add in password type field availability and apply to payment processor fields (10660)

  QuickForm now allows for a password type field to be added to forms. This new field type is also applied to the Payment Processor Password fields for security purposes.

• CRM-20876 in honor of does not show up on contribution receipt (10668)

  Now, When making a contribution in honor of someone, the person who is being honored shows up on the receipt.

• CRM-20931 Allow contact custom fields to be added to Contribution Detail report (10713)

  Now one can add contact custom fields to the Contribution Detail report.

• CRM-20987 Add transaction date field to listings of transactions (10789)

  On the Financial batch listing page, the "Received" column is now labeled "Transaction Date", and a new "Received" column, derived from civicrm_contribution.receive_date, is displayed.

• CRM-20913 Separate pledge statuses from contribution statuses (10811, 10803, and 10737)

  Creates a new option group for pledge status for pledges to use. Previously, pledges were using contribution statuses.

CiviMail

• CRM-20521 Convert list of groups and mailings in CiviMail to be loaded dynamically (10303)

  This change converts list of groups and mailings in CiviMail to be loaded dynamically to improve performance.

CiviMember

• CRM-20321 Changing membership type should change related contribution (10699)

  A new option ties the financial type of a membership payment contribution to the membership type of its related membership. When that membership type gets changed and the option is set, the contribution's financial type changes.

Bugs resolved

Core CiviCRM

• CRM-21135 Activity filter preference are not remembered when enabled in display preference (10932)

• CRM-21076 Fix: Can't view/edit ACL Role Assignments (10869)

• Suppress error if fakeFile cannot be created. (10677)

• CRM-20947 Remove Deprecation Notice for Option group (10788, 10782, 10768, 10750, 10743, 10732, and 10727)

• CRM-20944 Remove Deprecation Notice caused by ActivityLinks (10722)

  Removes use of CRM_Core_OptionGroup::getKey function which is deprecated

• CRM-20607 Can't save a reserved dedupe rule (10383)

• CRM-20577 When creating an activity per-contact when sending letters, store the version with rendered tokens (10348)

• CRM-20970 long postal code in db prevents searching by zipcode range (10769)

  Entering a long postal code into the database was preventing searching by postal code range on some configurations.

• CRM-20973 Call to undefined function Civi\API\civicrm_api3_create_error() in Civi/API/Kernel.php on line 413 (10773)

• CRM-20884 broken symlink in net_smtp packages (10676)

• CRM-20648 Allow registration in event with cancelled registration (10430)

  If a user has a canceled registration for an event civi now allows them to register on the front end for that same event.

• CRM-20995 API - Extension get - Ignores parameter full_name as created by API explorer (10796)

• CRM-20939 $_recent variable initialised as a string in CRM_Utils_Recent when should be an array (10721)

• CRM-20923 Refactor tpl for admin mail so it respects metadata (10704)

• CRM-20962 Issue in api_v3_SettingTest where string being used but needs to be array for php7.1 (10753)

  Code Improvement for PHP 7.1 compatibility

• CRM-20972 PHP7.1 New Exception generated causing failures in API_v3_SyntaxConformanceTests (10772)

  Code Improvement for PHP 7.1 compatibility

• CRM-19941 PHP 7.1 Compatability (10724)

• CRM-20969 Fix issue in reports where we try and append a new array key to string (10765)

• CRM-21029 Activity report SQL syntax error (10820)

  Fixes network error thrown on the Scheduled Activities dashlet "Network Error : unable to reach the server".

CiviMail

• CRM-21100 Empty list shown in "Send test email to group" dropdown (10895)

  In the preview section of a mailing, the "Send test email to groups" dropdown showed an empty list by default. This list was populated by the current list of recipients, if any. It now lists existing groups even though these are not chosen as recipients.

• CRM-21070 Intra-rc regression:Unable to set Recipients in CiviMail in 4.7.24-rc (10880)

CiviContribute

• CRM-20954 Fatal SQL error when completing a partially paid contribution in localized installation (10747)

• CRM-20976 Improve error handling when someone tries to make a credit card contribution and no processor is configured (10775)

  An error message is now displayed instead of an endless spinning wheel when someone tries to make a credit card contribution on a contribution page with no processor configured.

• CRM-20946 Wrong entries in financial table when contribution is cancelled (10726)

  Fixes a bug where the wrong entries were being added to the financial table when the contribution was canceled, now uses line total of line item to store in financial item table

• CRM-21002 Credit card type icons are incorrectly populated on backoffice live mode (10799)

• CRM-21027 Next recurring payment not accurately calculated when effective date passed in (10818)

  This pull request fixes a bug causing payment processors that rely on CiviCRM updating the next_sched_contribution_date for recurring to not get it updated.

• CRM-20800 User Cannot Cancel Recurring Payment With Paypal (10833) (Initial Work)

• CRM-20821 Saving an existing premium product breaks the image URLs (10761, (10762, and 10720)

CiviMember

• CRM-20952 Refresh membership tab on edits to membership payments (10741)

• CRM-20961 Non numeric php 7.1 error when running api_v3_MembershipTest (10752)

• CRM-20875 Import of membership custom data throws notice errors. (10664)

CiviSMS

• CRM-20989 SMS Provider check in Scheduled Reminders, breaks for multisite (10792)

CiviEvent

• CRM-20910 API call to Participant.get ignores check_permissons (10698)

• CRM-20967 Event Participants List shows Total paid and balance incorrect (10763)

  Fixes a bug where the Participants List was showing "Total paid" and "balance" incorrect when Deferred revenue was enabled.

• CRM-17236 Custom dates fields displayed as (01/01/1970) in Events Confirmation Reciept (10710)

• CRM-20915 Creating credit card registration for event stores payment method as check (10701)

• CRM-20943 PHP 7.1 Compatability issue with Manage Events (10748)

Joomla Integration

• CRM-19575 Cron jobs on Joomla triggers "Use of undefined constant JDEBUG" (10715)

Miscellany

• CRM-20965 Add Pull Request Template (10784 and 10758)

  This change sets up a PR template in github to help contributers standardize their pull request documentation.

• (NFC) Fix permissions on CRM/Contribute/BAO/Contribution.php (10766)

• CRM_Utils_SQL_Select - Allow fluent query execution (10686)

• (NFC) gitignore - Remove obsolete entries (10714)

• regen.sh - Fix stale function call in sql/GenerateData.php (10706)

Credits

This release was developed by the following code authors:

AGH Strategies - Andrew Hunt; Australian Greens - Seamus Lee; CiviCRM - Coleman Watts, Tim Otten; CompuCorp - Michael Devery; Coop SymbioTIC - Samuel Vanhove; Electronic Frontier Foundation - Mark Burdett; Fuzion - Chris Burgess, Eileen McNaughton, Jitendra Purohit; JMA Consulting - Edsel Lopez, Monish Deb, Pradeep Nayak; John Kingsnorth; Korlon - Stuart Gaston; Left Join Labs - Sean Madsen; Megaphone Technology Consulting - Jon Goldberg; MJW Consulting - Matthew Wire; myDropWizard - David Snopek; Oxfam Germany - Thomas Schüttler; Progressive Technology Project - Jamie McClelland; Wikimedia Foundation - Eileen McNaughton

Most authors also reviewed code for this release; in addition, the following reviewers contributed their comments:

Alcohol Justice - Bruce Wolfe; Apple Street Market - Sean Prónay; British Humanist Association - William Gordon; CiviCoop - Jaap Jansma; CiviDesk - Nicolas Ganivet; CompuCorp - Guanhuan Chen, Jamie Novick; Coop SymbioTIC - Mathieu Lutfy, Stéphane Lussier; Dave Greenberg; DevMate - Adam Kwiatkowski; DreamSpace - Anthony Colombo; Francesc Bassas i Bullich; Fuzion - Peter Davis; Greenleaf Advancement - Karen Stevenson; JMA Consulting - Joe Murray; Lighthouse Design and Consulting - Brian Shaughnessy; Lionel Smith-Gordon; Nathan Brettell; National Democratic Institute - Dean Valentine; Responsive Development Technologies - Thomas Nilefalk; Semper IT - Karin Gerritsen; SEN Magazine - Jeremy Nicholls; Skvare - Mark Hanna; Stephen Palmstrom; Tadpole Collective - Kevin Cristiano; Team Expansion - Greg Harris; Thomas Bacon; Torrance Hodgson

Feedback

These release notes are edited by Alice Frumin and Andrew Hunt. If you'd like to provide feedback on them, please login to https://chat.civicrm.org/civicrm and contact @agh1.